Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act Creates No Personal Rights Enforceable Under 42 U.S.C. § 1983

D.C. Circuit: Petitioner Failed to Show That Writ of Mandamus Was Appropriate Remedy for Attorney's Fee Petition

Eighth Circuit Finds Convicted Alien's Removal can Proceed Because he was not Eligible for Expungement Under Federal First Offender Act

Ninth Circuit Declines to Consider Attorney Fees Under EAJA where Underlying Action was Dismissed for Lack of Subject-Matter Jurisdiction

Third Circuit Finds Former Employees Lack Standing to Sue Company Under ERISA for Deciding not to Rehire Them Because of Higher Pension Liability

U.S. Supreme Court Cancels Argument in Case Claiming That Eleventh Amendment Bars ADA Title II Challenge to State Licensing Decisions

Eighth Circuit Holds Alien who Illegally Reentered the U.S. After Deportation but Before 1996 Reforms May Plead the Eliminated Defenses to Reinstatement of Deportation Order

Eighth Circuit Holds Less Than $2,000 in Compensatory Damages is not a Clearly Erroneous Remedy for Electoral Disenfranchisement

First Circuit Affirms Finding that Possession of Firearm Breached Protection Order

Sixth Circuit Affirms Finding that Firing of Employee After Suicide Attempt was Unlawful Under FMLA and State Law When Medical Leave had been Requested

Suit Alleges Head Start Program Administrators Fail to Comply with Bilingual Access Requirements, Violating Title VI Regulations

Eighth Circuit holds Rehabilitation Act was not Violated where Disabled Person did not Request Accommodation

Ninth Circuit holds Waiver of Immunity Disappears Once Case is Voluntarily Dismissed

Pending State Action, First Circuit Stays Decision on Legality Under ADA of Insurance Policy Distinguishing Institutionalized Mentally Handicapped Persons

Sixth Circuit holds Arbitration Agreement in Employment Contract does not Prevent Lodging of Complaint with EEOC

Seventh Circuit Affirms Finding that Student Loans are not Dischargeable for Hardship Caused by Substance Abuse

Ninth Circuit finds Chapter 7 Special Exemption Claim is not Precluded by Pre-Bankruptcy Exemption Filing Under State Law

Seventh Circuit finds Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies Requirement Before Attorney Fee Claim does not Require Efforts to Expedite a Stalled Administrative Process

Ninth Circuit holds NAACP could Collect Attorney Fees for Successfully Defending Desegregation Consent Decree from Subsequent Collateral Attack

Ninth Circuit Holds Attorney Fees Recompensable when Incurred not in Proving Civil Rights Violations but in Enforcing Court Ordered Relief for Them

Second Circuit Finds Pro Se ADA Complaint Against School, for not Advancing Student After Long Absence, Did State a Claim on Which Relief can be Granted

D.C. Circuit Reverses Summary Judgment Against Terminated Disabled File Clerk, Holding a Genuine Issue of Accommodation Existed

Eleventh Circuit holds Shorter Administrative Limitations Period Applies to IDEA

Third Circuit Upholds Policy of Isolating and 'Reeducating' Prison Cult/Gang Leaders

Third Circuit Upholds Zoning Ban on Care Facility, Holding 'Interactive Process' Required by Rehabilitation Act is not Required by FHAA

Third Circuit holds $125 hourly cap Doesn't Apply to Government's Agreement to pay Attorney Fees Under EAJA

Federal Circuit holds Regional Office should Order Payment on Fee Retainer Contract even after Substitution of Counsel